Sleeping Beauty (1959). Listen or download original Sleeping Beauty movie songs from soundtrack. The 14th century. The newborn Princess Aurora is named after the Roman goddess of the dawn because she fills the lives of her mother and father, King Stefan and Queen Leah, with sunshine. While still an infant, she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, son of King Hubert. At her christening, the Three Good Fairies - Flora, Fauna and Merryweather - arrive to bless her.

Flora gives her the gift of beauty while Fauna gives her the gift of song. The Dark Fairy Maleficent express disappointment in not being invited: The Princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her.

But before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. Merryweather is able to use her blessing: Sweet Princess, if through this wicked witch's trick a spindle should your finger prick a ray of hope there still may be in this the gift I give to thee. Not in death, but just in sleep this fateful prophecy you'll keep and from this slumber you shall wake when true love's kiss the spell shall break. Though King Stefan decrees all spinning wheels in the kingdom burned, the Three Good Fairies devise a plan to protect Aurora. They disguise themselves as peasant women and sneak Aurora away with them to a woodland cottage until her sixteen birthday lapses, passing themselves off as her aunts and swearing off magic to conceal themselves. Years later, Aurora, renamed Briar-Rose, had grown into a beauty young woman with the blessings that Flora and Fauna bestowed to her. On the day of her sixteenth birthday, the fairies attempt to make Aurora a gown and a cake.

Aurora gathers berries while singing to her animal friends, attracting the attention of Prince Phillip as he is out riding his horse in the woods. When they meet, they instantly fall in love. In the castle, Maleficent uses her magic to lure Aurora away from her boudoir and up to a tower, where a spinning wheel awaits her. Fascinated by the wheel with Maleficent's will enforcing it, Aurora touches the spindle, pricking her finger and completing the curse.

The good fairies place Aurora on a bed and place all in the kingdom in a deep ageless sleep until the spell is broken. Prince Phillip arrives at the cottage, but is captured by Maleficent's minions and taken to the dungeons of her lair, "The Forbidden Mountain", to prevent him from kissing Sleeping Beauty. The fairies sneak into Maleficent's stronghold and free the prince. Armed with the magical Sword of Truth and The Shield of Virtue, Phillip and the fairies escape from the Forbidden Mountain whilst being attacked by Maleficent's minions, which the fairies succeed in blocking. After a long fight, Phillip throws the sword, blessed by the fairies' magic, into the dragon's heart, causing Maleficent to fall to her death from a cliff. Phillip climbs to Sleeping Beauty's chamber, and removes the curse with a kiss.

Brewer Jr. Donald Halliday. Disney artist Eyvind Earle painted the majority of the backgrounds himself. The elaborate paintings usually took seven to ten days to paint. Sleeping Beauty's production costs, which totaled $6 million, made it the most expensive Disney film up to that point, and over twice as expensive as each of the preceding three Disney animated features.

In the original fable, the princess sleeps for 100 years. Disney's decision to give Earle so much artistic freedom was not popular among the Disney animators, who had until Sleeping Beauty exercised some influence over the style of their characters and settings. All the live actors' performances were screened for the animators' reference as Walt Disney insisted that much of Sleeping Beauty's character animation be as close to live action as possible.

Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty Game is a Parker Brothers children's board game for two to four players. King Hubert: To the wedding! King Stefan: Now, be reasonable, Hubert. After all, Aurora knows nothing about all this.